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Hanna Rosin Quotes

If my own current husband was suddenly a stay-at-home dad, it would be emasculating. That would be hard for me.

– Hanna Rosin

Blog culture has a hard time digesting narratives, but it has an easy time digesting ‘big ideas’ pieces.

– Hanna Rosin

As we get used to women in power, we are likely to discover that they behave much like powerful men – vain, entitled, always looking for more.

– Hanna Rosin

Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to spread their seed, and that women can’t resist the scent of masculine power. Women, by contrast, are said to be more altruistic and collaborative, seeking power so that they can share it with others.

– Hanna Rosin

We’re so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.

– Hanna Rosin

There comes a point in nearly every book event I’ve done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.

– Hanna Rosin

Breast-feeding does not belong in the realm of facts and hard numbers; it is much too intimate and elemental.

– Hanna Rosin

I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure.

– Hanna Rosin

The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.

– Hanna Rosin

Interestingly, one thing I’ve found that neither women nor men give up on is the idea of men as protectors. Even in cases where the woman is earning more, they’ll often tell me that if there were a fire or something, they would expect the man to be the one to protect them.

– Hanna Rosin

Yes, the upper reaches of society are still dominated by men.

– Hanna Rosin

Women have a tendency not to give up realms once they take over new ones. We are still proprietary over the domestic realm even as we take over new professional realms, and that is a real problem.

– Hanna Rosin

Maybe there’s something about the outsiderness of being Jewish that makes for a fiery feminist type.

– Hanna Rosin

I grew up with a pretty tough mom. She was a self-appointed neighborhood watchdog, and if she saw that any of the local boys were up to no good, she would scold them on the spot. Although she is only 5 feet 2, she was famous in our neighborhood for intimidating men three times her size and getting them to do the right thing.

– Hanna Rosin

Factories not what they used to be – they’re all extremely high-tech.

– Hanna Rosin

Green jobs – those are jobs that feel like new economy jobs; they do require some training.

– Hanna Rosin

Most days I struggle just to be accepted into the camp of plain old feminists. This is mainly because I am not by nature ideological and generally suspicious of people who are.

– Hanna Rosin

The general image of a man in an American sitcom is like a complete moron. You’d think the industry was run by a feminist cabal.

– Hanna Rosin

The first time someone tried to share the Gospel with me, I naively explained that I was Jewish and born in Israel, thank you… This was a big mistake. In certain parts of Christian America, admitting I was an Israeli-born Jew turned me into walking catnip.

– Hanna Rosin

I think we should all call ourselves feminists.

– Hanna Rosin

Workplaces still operate like it’s 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.

– Hanna Rosin

With the Jews, the questions are always open; we’re always questioning. I love that questioning tradition.

– Hanna Rosin

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